[Oorexx-devel] ooRexx Background Process Question

[David A. <dav...@gm...>]

I want to create a Linux daemon program written in C that invokes a Rexx script. 
This means the script process will be running in the background without a 
terminal interface or any normal SYSIN, SYSOUT, or SYSERR file handles available 
(I will be redirecting SYSOUT and SYSERR to a log file).

My question is what happens when I perform a kill -9 operation on the process 
and how can I intercept that action in the ooRexx script to ensure the program 
shuts down gracefully? Will a CALL ON HALT statement catch this kind of action? 
And do I need to enable any other signal handling in the C part of the program?

I am asking this because I am unsure if ooRexx will act differently in this kind 
of environment than it would as a foreground process. I just want to make sure I 
am not boxing myself into a corner here.

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David Ashley
ooRexx Development Team